Clinical Practice Guidelines and Reporting Standards are important tools as the SVS strives to improve quality of care and reduce variation. They also serve as an important benefit for SVS members.

Rather than a separate session as at previous VAMs, the Program Committee and the Document Oversight Committee (DOC) have included presentations on guidelines and reporting standards in the scientific sessions. Each presentation has been slotted to align with abstracts being presented at that particular session.

ROSEMONT, Illinois, April 22, 2019 – Many patients meet a vascular surgeon for the first time when they need to have surgery. There’s no time for an anatomy lesson; it’s time to make a medical decision.

But quite a few of those patients might never have needed that surgery if they had known more about how the body’s amazing system of veins and arteries works and how to keep it healthy.

Here are a few basics that vascular specialists wish patients knew:

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ROSEMONT, Illinois, June 2019 – Four years ago, vascular experts from around the world had a quixotic quest: get all surgeons and providers to agree on the best ways to treat a common and debilitating illness: chronic limb-threatening ischemia. The goal has come to fruition with the publication of the new guidelines in the Journal of Vascular Surgery.

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On behalf of the Leadership Development and Diversity Committee

This interview continues our series of conversations with national vascular surgery leaders based on topics from the Kouznes and Pozner book “The Truth About Leadership.” This column highlights the evidence-based behaviors regarding “Leadership is an Affair Of The Heart.”

SVS Foundation, SVN and SVU team up with AAAneurysm Outreach

The SVS Foundation, the Society for Vascular Nursing and the Society for Vascular Ultrasound, have joined forces with AAAneurysm Outreach to sponsor a free screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms and peripheral arterial disease in June. W.L. Gore & Associates is also a sponsor and has provided funding for the event.

GW Medical Faculty Associates in Washington, D.C., will provide the screenings, set for 8 a.m. to noon at 2150 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.

With an increasing number of procedures transitioning to office and outpatient settings, the Society for Vascular Surgery has created the new member Section on Outpatient and Office Vascular Care (SOOVC), specifically geared to clinicians who work in these environments.

The SOOVC is designed to increase awareness, education and representation of the movement to outpatient and office-based settings.

After four years of work and research, vascular experts from around the world have released a new, far-reaching global guideline on managing chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), a problem of increasing prevalence and higher health care costs world-wide.

The Journal of Vascular Surgery is publishing the guideline, with 113 specific recommendations, as a supplement to the June edition. It is to available online before late May.

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